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78: A Daddy's Girl
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Jarren
Long after Kaileeh returned to the house, I sat on the bench, staring into the trees. There was so much going on around me, and for the first time, I felt helpless, crippled by the intensity of the situation. It didn’t seem that I could catch a break. When I thought I had one thing under control, something would happen to make it more difficult, or something else would come up altogether.
Dread was something that I was beginning to feel quite often, and that was rare for my kind. Life was constantly surprising people, but I felt as if I’d had my fair share of surprises in the three hundred and twenty-eight years I had been alive. Someone, somewhere, thought differently.
I was so caught up in my thoughts that I
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Jarren Rian had lost his damn mind talking to the women in the house that way, and if he thought that I wasn’t going to say something about it, then he had thought wrong. When Mason shut the door behind him, I pushed Rian into the side of the house. My anger was at an all-time high.“Have you lost your mind?” I questioned, fuming. Mason stepped between us.“Look, I know what you’re going to ask me, and it’s none of your business. What happens between Sage and I is just that, between Sage and I.”“Wrong!”I snapped. “When it’s affecting the two of yo
